The Big Grabowski

When the body of an unscrupulous land developer washes in with the tide, there are more suspects than mourners in the quirky town of Devil's Harbor, Oregon. Vince Grabowski was infamous for creating an environmental disaster, hatching shady investment schemes and trying to commercialize the tiny coastal community. A list of who-could-have-done-it includes Grabowski's

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Overview

When the body of an unscrupulous land developer washes in with the tide, there are more suspects than mourners in the quirky town of Devil's Harbor, Oregon. Vince Grabowski was infamous for creating an environmental disaster, hatching shady investment schemes and trying to commercialize the tiny coastal community. A list of who-could-have-done-it includes Grabowski's less-than grieving widow, her eco-freak boyfriend, a marijuana-farming ice cream shop owner, a radio evangelist about to lose her listeners, the mayor's sex-crazed wife and a disgruntled artist who grudgingly perpetuates a hoax on gullible tourists. For Molly Donovan, the murder creates an opportunity to use the crime reporting skills she shelved when her father's heart attack forced her to return to Oregon. Chafing under the limitations of writing for The North Coast Flotsam, she revels in matching wits with investigators-until the killer frames her father.

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Editorial Reviews

Amanda Capper

"The Big Grabowski is the first book I have read by the writing team of Carolyn Rose and Mike Nettleton, but it won’t be the last. I thoroughly enjoyed this laugh-out-loud who-done-it and look forward to reading more of their work."

Denise Dietz

"When real estate developer Vince Grabowski is discovered dead amidst a huddle of sea lions, small town reporter Molly Donovan tells Sergeant Erdman that he won't have to make a list of suspects. Instead, he can copy the Devil's Harbor phone book. The Big Grabowski is a whirligig of exhilaration; the kind of book that reminds us of how much fun reading mysteries should be!"

DENISE DIETZ, author of Soap Bubbles

Elizabeth Lyon

"Just when you settle into this light mystery, and let your guard down, The Big Grabowski sweeps you into a town of Oregon coastal dwellers, nearly all with motive to kill, who live on the other side of what you expect."

ELIZABETH LYON, author of A Writers Guide To Fiction

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Meet the Author

Carolyn J. Rose grew up in New York’s Catskill Mountains, graduated from the University of Arizona, logged two years in Arkansas with Volunteers in Service to America, and spent 25 years as a television news researcher, writer, producer, and assignment editor in Arkansas, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. She teaches novel-writing in Vancouver, Washington, and founded the Vancouver Writers’ Mixers. Her hobbies are reading, gardening, and not cooking. Mike Nettleton grew up in Bandon and Grants Pass, Oregon. A stint at a college station in Ashland led to a multi-state radio odyssey with on-air gigs in Oregon, California, and New Mexico under the air name Mike Phillips. In 1989 he returned to the Northwest and in 1994 joined KEX Radio in Portland. His hobbies are golf, pool, Texas hold-em poker, and book collecting. Carolyn and Mike have authored a number of mysteries. For more information about all of their mystery titles, please visit their website at www.deadlyduomysteries.com.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

I loved this book and the second one, sometimes a great commotion and both were excellent reads. She is great with witty humor and tosses a little romance in as well. But the intrigue of each story is wonderfully written and the characters vividly come to life. Both are must reads.

mrsfozzy

More than 1 year ago

Loved this book a little bit of everything suspense murder humor

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Best book I have read in years. Love the characters dry sense of humor!

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JacquelineSeewald

More than 1 year ago

Book Review The Big Grabowski by Carolyn J. Rose and Mike Nettleton 2009
The novel begins with Jennifer Daley complaining that nothing ever happens in Devil's Harbor, Oregon, shortly before she discovers the body of Vince Grabowski, a shady land developer. Molly Donovan, reporter for the local newspaper, is the central focus and amateur sleuth. She has come home to take care of her ailing father, giving up her news career in New Mexico. Point of view shifts from Molly's first person to many residents and possible suspects presented in the third person. There is a lot of humor here and bouncy dialog. But guessing the murderer won't be easy, not when so many residents of Devil's Harbor had good reason to wish the big Grabowki dead, including his own wife. This is a fun mystery novel, a cross between Lillian Jackson Braun and Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
Jacqueline Seewald
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